—Lancaster Faming Satarday, October 13,1979
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DER to sell firewood starting Monday
HARRISBURG - The
Department of Environmen
tal Resources’ pilot project
to bring firewood to the peo
ple begins on Monday, Oct
15, when the first of 1,000
cords of prime oak goes on
sale at the Farm Show park
ing lot.
The firewood, which is
seasoned, split and stacked
in cords or in fractions of
cords, will be available form
10 ann. through six p.m.,
Monday through Saturday,
through Dec. 31.
DER Secretary Clifford L.
Jones, who will be present on
Monday when the sale
begins, said the department
initiated this experimental
program for a number of
reasons.
“We want to encourage the
use of wood as a fuel, both in
homes and in business and
industry,” be said. “Wood is
abundant, it is renewable
and it is available at
reasonable prices.
“We also want to en
courage private contractors
to get into the business of
cutting fuel wood on state
forest land by demonstrating
that there is a market and
showing bow it can be done
on a large scale.
“And this wood comes
from a section of the Bald
Eagle State Forest in Clinton
County where the trees were
killed by repeated gypsy
moth defoliation. So we are
using a resource - dead
trees - that would otherwise
go to waste.”
The wood will be cut into
lengths of 16 inches, 20 in
ches and 24 indies, to ac
m
RESULTS FROM GMS MATINGS
STAR-ROCK BOOTMAKER
MAIDVG-87
2-3-347 d 2x 23.932 M 815 F
Projected over 24.000 M present
lactation. A Bootmaker from a VG dam
(also selling) with 24,351 M 1084 F
Maids daughter by Monitor will sell due
in Feb. Maid has a son in A.I. She is con
tracted now & due in Jan. to Chip.
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STAR-ROCK BLACK BART PRINCESS
A Black Bart heifer due Jan. Her Dam
Brook Lodge Monitor Print VG-lst calf
also sells, a Monitor with 2-3- 2x
17.130 M 4.1% 695 F
Bangor, PA
Baptistown, NJ
Columbia, PA
Ephrata. PA
Hottwood, PA
Lebanon, PA
Leola, PA
Newburg, PA
commodate different sized
wood stoves and fireplaces.
Prices will be:
—s3o for one-third of a
cord (a stack of 16 inch logs
four feet high by eight feet
long).
- $3B for two-fifths of a
cord (a stack of 20 inch logs
four feet high by eight feet
long).
- $45 for one-half of a cord
(a stack of 24 inch logs four
feet high by eight feet long).
- $B9 for a full cord (a
stack of 16,20 or 24 inch logs
or any combination of sizes
which totals four feet wide
by four feet high by eight
feet long).
“We will also sell small
bundles of wood for those
who want just enough to use
their fireplaces a few times
during the season,” Jones
said.
He said that in all cases,
buyers will have to pick up
their own wood.
“Officials from our
Bureau of Forestry will be
on hand at all time during
the sale to sell $3 permits
that enable people to cut
their own fire wood and state
forest land,” Jones said.
The $3 permit entitles peo
ple to cut 100 cubic feet of
wood, which is slightly less
than a cord.
“This fuel wood sale can
be viewed as an extension of
our fuel wood permit pro
gram,” Jones said. “It’s
designed to help those who,
for whatever reasons, can’t
get to our state forests to cut
their own.”
Virtually all of the wood
sold will be red, white, black,
STAR ROCK FARM DISPERSAL
MILKING HERD and BRED HEIFERS
Enc Heinsohn
Cindy Gordeuk
James Charles
Damn Yoder
Paul Herr
Paul Martin
Lynn Gardner
Jerry Baboms
scarlet and chestnut oak.
These species rank just
behind hickory as the best
fuel for fireplaces and wood
stoves.
“According to Bureau of
Forestry calculations, a cord
of oak fuel wood has about
the same BUT output as 162
gallons of fuel oil, 24,006
cubic feet of natural gas or
one ton of coal,” Jones said.
“Oak is especially good for
wood stoves because it burns
with a uniform flame and
produces steady, glowing
coals, which is particularly
important if you want a hot
fire that burns all night or all
day without stoking.”
The trees that are being
cut have been dead for a
least two years, so they are
well seasoned and contain
far less creosote, which can
coat chimneys and cause
fires, than green wood or
wood that hasn’t been allow
ed to dry properly.
The wood is being cut, split
and delivered to the Farm
Show by Wood Chips, Inc., of
Jeff Largent, 14, of
Kremmling, Col., has earned
his college education money
through one good lamb in his
4-H club project. Largent’s 7-
month old lamb won grand
champion honors at the
Middle Park Fair in
Kremmling and then
became the object of a
bidding war as two food
Conestoga, Pennsylvania (Lancaster Co.)
THURSDAY & FRIDAY
OCTOBER 25 & 26, 1979
500 HOLSTEINS - 85% REGISTERED
440 COWS - 60 BRED HEIFERS
July RHA 400 head 15,700 milk 3.6% 569 fat
Route 30 west of Lancaster to exit 441 south (last exit
before Sus. river).
Follow Rt. 441 south and continue on to River Road.
Turn right onto Chestnut Grove Road. Farm BV2 miles
south of Rt. 30.
The Barleys have been ABS customers for many years
and have many daughters of ABS bulls in their herd. They
have been on the ABS GMS Program for 6 years. Many
daughters are the results of the GMS Program.
Service sires:
H 2873 Lee +sl22 + 1.374 M +.B2PDT
H 2785 Milestone +1.527M+1.74PDT
H 2775 Triple Threat+.l3%test+2.34
H 2510 Demand +1,899M +sl3B + 53
H 2694 Bud +sl4o +1322M +.00% +.99
H 2669 Standout Star +1354M + .68PDT
H 2477 Sunshine+s92+.ls% +.83
H 2655 Bouquet+sl4o+l3oo+.ol%
H 2719 Boot-Nick +94BM +1 91PDT
H 2851 Valiant +1587M +2.3OPDT +S67TPI
H 3200 Chip +sl2B +1489M +.75
H 2417 Art +slo4 +.10% test +.41 PDT
H 2679 Blackstar +99BM +.86 PDT
H 2770 Gemini +slo2 +.06% +1.03 PDT
H 2592 Lmdy +sl2B +1461M +I.2BPDT
HlBBl Bootmaker+sll9+l267M+lo2
215-588-4704
201-996-2088
717-898-8694
717-733-0966
717-284-4592
717-944-2381
717-656-6509
717-423-6451
Market lamb nets
over $l2 grand ,
10:00 A.M. both days
DIRECTIONS TO FARM
Avis, Pa. which submitted a
low bid of $84,748 for 1,000
standard rough cords of fuel
wood.
The contract calls for
Wood Chips to deliver to the
Farm Show a minimum of
100 cords per week for 10 suc
cessive weeks. Only dead
trees which have been mark
ed by DER foresters can be
cut.
“Pennsylvania has more
than two million acres of
acres of state forest lands
that are being
underharvested,” Jones
said. “We grow far more
wood each year than we cut
and thousands of acres of
trees are allowed to grow
past their prime.
“We hope that the fuel
wood program can help us
use our state forest lands
more efficiently, can help up
promote healthier, more
dynamic forests and can
help us ease the energy
crunch and our reliance on
foreign oil.”
stores vied for the prize
lamb.
The Safeway store and
City Market, both of the
Silverthome-Frisco area in
Colorado, went mid when it
came to bidding on the 117-
pound lamb. Safeway finally'
won out at $lO5 ner oound.
netting $12,285 for 14-year
old Largent.
USDA approves
Nicaragua
WASHINGTON, D.C. -
The U.S. Department of
Agriculture has advised
Nicaraguan officials that
they could resume meat ex
ports to the United States.
Assistant Secretary of
Agriculture Carol Tucker
Foreman said, however, that
imports from Nicaragua will
be subject to intensified
residue testing to assure that
the product meets U.S. Stan
dards for wholesomeness.
The department’s periodic
reviews of the plants will
also be increased, she said.
Foreman said the rate of
sampling for residues will be
doubled and all imports will
be held at the port of entry
until residue samples are
analyzed and the product is
found to be in compliance
with U.S. requirements.
She said the intensified
testing program will con
tinue until the department is
assured that the Nicaraguan
program is adequate to con
trol residues. Until then, she
said, department officials
will make monthly visits to
review the Nicaraguan
plants instead of the normal
quarterly reviews.
The Nicaraguan meat
plants were removed from
the list of approved ex
porters June 15 because un
safe travel conditions in the
country prevented depart
ment officials from making
the required quarterly
reviews to asure that plants
were in compliance with the
department’s meat inspec
tion regulations.
Foreman said that prior to
RESULTS FROM QMS MATINGS
STAR-ROCK MONITOR KATE
GP-2y
2-3 2x214d 17.577 M 498 F (me)
Proj. 22,850-657
A Monitor from a GP-81
19.585 M 739 F due Dec,
Threat
No. Bred
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A terrific young Kit Builder fresh July
19 She gave 651 lbs Ist test at 2y Om.
Her dam over 650 fat.
Port Deposit, MD
Port Murray, NJ
Reading, PA
Stewartstown, PA
Thomasville, PA
West Grove, PA
Monroeville, NJ
Taneytown, MD
Mt. Airy, MD
STAR-ROCK KIT BUILDER
IRENE nc
R. James Benjamin ill 301-378-3540
Robert Kayhart 201-689-2605
Robert Greider 215-378-1212
Tom Engle 717-993-6836
Ira Boyer 717-225-3758
Maurice Stump 215-869-9187
Cindy Hetzell 609-769-2791
Jack L. Kiing
Allan Pickett
imports
re-instating export approval,
department inspection of
ficials visited the plants and
reviewed the Nicaraguan
government’s inspection
program, which has been
strengthened and through
the addition of strigent
measure to prevent the
presence of
chemical residues in ex
ported meat.
Nicaraguan plants shipped
nearly 70 million pounds of
meat to the U.S. in 1978, or 3
per cent of the total imports
to this country. The meat,
shipped frozen and uncook
ed, was used primarily in
processed products, such as
cooked sausage, hamburger
or convenience foods.
The Federal Meat Inspec
tion Act assigns the depart
ment the responsibility for
the wholesomeness of all
meat moving in interstate
and foreign commerce.
COMMCT!
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diesel tractors
maneuver small,
work big
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